An international team of astronomers led by Matus Rybak (Leiden University, Netherlands) has proven, thanks to accidental ...

“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...

The oldest and most distant black hole known to scientists dates back 13.3 billion years ago, when our universe was still in its teething stage, according to findings published this month.

Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the ...

The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...

A new interpretation of dark energy data suggests that the mysterious force, which accelerated the early universe's expansion ...

Cosmic maps appear consistent with the proposal that black holes could cause the Universe's accelerating expansion.

I n 2019, gravitational wave observatories across the world reported the merger of a black hole of 23 solar masses with a ...

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event ...

Researchers at Durham and collaborators in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) mission have proposed a bold new ...

The nearest black hole that we know of at the moment is 1,560 light-years away. There’s probably a black hole lurking within ...

A new study theorizes that primordial black holes formed after the Big Bang (the far left panel) constitute all dark matter in the universe. At early epochs they cluster and seed the formation of ...